Paul Renz is a jazz guitar instructor at MacPhail Center for Music and is director of jazz studies at the West Bank School of Music. He is known to Twin Cities jazz aficionados for his stunning Paul Renz Quartet, which performs regularly at area jazz clubs and tours nationally every other year. Paul has composition and jazz studies degrees from the New England Conservatory and Berklee College of Music. He has been a featured guitarist and composer on National Public Radio. His works have been commissioned by Tidewater Performing Arts Society of Virginia, Tidewater Classic Guitar Society of Virginia, the Minnesota Center for Arts Education, MacPhail Center for Music and Roseville Area High School. (br>
His latest CD, Hubbub, which has generated national attention, features original jazz compositions. His music has been described as alternately sensitive, funky and blistering! Tom Surowicz says, “Paul Renz’s music is a kick! It’s a fresh, breathing, surprising, tune-filled, character-to-spare personal amalgam of so much that’s so fine about modern mainstream jazz.”
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